马克.吐温的《哈克贝利.芬历险记》中的密西西比河超越传统意义,被赋予了人性和神性的二元性格,是象征民主自由和平等的水上荒野、神话中的伊甸园。哈克和吉姆在密西西比河上的水上之旅,是一场心灵和人生之旅,在没有世俗道德束缚的荒野上主人公逐渐构建了自己的价值道德体系,完成了走向新生的成年礼。本文试图利用原型批评理论来对小说中的荒野意象和成年仪式进行解读,从而挖掘出作品与民族文化、民族无意识心理的深层结构的内在联系与原型模式。 Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” goes beyond the traditional significance of the Mississippi River and is endowed with a dual character of humanity and deity. It is an aquatic wilderness symbolizing democratic freedom and equality, and an Eden in mythology. Huck and Jim’s water journey on the Mississippi River is a journey of mind and life. In the wilderness where there is no secular moral bond, the hero gradually builds his moral system of values ​​and completes the rite of passage to the newborn. This article attempts to use the theory of archetypal criticism to interpret the images and adult rituals in the novels, so as to dig out the inner relationship and the prototype of the deep structure of the works and ethnic cultures and national unconscious psychology.